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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w18166 |
来源ID | Working Paper 18166 |
Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data | |
Florian Heiss; Adam Leive; Daniel McFadden; Joachim Winter | |
发表日期 | 2012-06-15 |
出版年 | 2012 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We study the Medicare Part D prescription drug insurance program as a bellwether for designs of private, non-mandatory health insurance markets, focusing on the ability of consumers to evaluate and optimize their choices of plans. Our analysis of administrative data on medical claims in Medicare Part D suggests that less than 10 percent of individuals enroll in plans that are ex post optimal with respect to total cost (premiums and co-payments). Relative to the benchmark of a static decision rule, similar to the Plan Finder provided by the Medicare administration, that conditions next year's plan choice only on the drugs consumed in the current year, enrollees lost on average about $300 per year. These numbers are hard to reconcile with decision costs alone; it appears that unless a sizeable fraction of consumers value plan features other than cost, they are not optimizing effectively. |
主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18166 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575841 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Florian Heiss,Adam Leive,Daniel McFadden,et al. Plan Selection in Medicare Part D: Evidence from Administrative Data. 2012. |
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